cloud computing Irish style!
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cloud computing Irish style!
I know it "should" be in computing but I think it deserves a wider airing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...y-weather.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...y-weather.html
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ah sorry apprently a hoax, so one of my Irish collegues tells me.
http://thesciencebit.net/2011/11/25/...his-ignorance/
http://thesciencebit.net/2011/11/25/...his-ignorance/
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TheScienceBit.Net
"...So I set about writing an appropriate blog. I had even composed the opening sentence: “This is one of those ‘you’re-never-gonna-believe-it’ kind of stories.” And then, as I usually do, I went looking for the sources. Evidence, in other words.
Unfortunately, to my (kind-of) disappointment, I had difficulty finding the original article. The piece had appeared on a number of discussion boards (such as here, here, and here), but not in any actual news outlet, at least online. Fair enough, I thought, maybe the piece was published only in hard copy, although I did think it strange that no original source was identified on any of the posts. So then I went looking for details about the various councillors, including Martin Shiels, Sile Ni Baoill, and the now infamous Seamus Tiernan. And I discovered there were no councillors of those names serving in Galway, nor in any other council in Ireland.
In other words, the entire story was a hoax. Funny, yes, and maybe even thought-provoking. But a hoax nonetheless.
Which rather scuppered my plans to write about politicians’ lack of grasp on matters scientific and technological."
"...So I set about writing an appropriate blog. I had even composed the opening sentence: “This is one of those ‘you’re-never-gonna-believe-it’ kind of stories.” And then, as I usually do, I went looking for the sources. Evidence, in other words.
Unfortunately, to my (kind-of) disappointment, I had difficulty finding the original article. The piece had appeared on a number of discussion boards (such as here, here, and here), but not in any actual news outlet, at least online. Fair enough, I thought, maybe the piece was published only in hard copy, although I did think it strange that no original source was identified on any of the posts. So then I went looking for details about the various councillors, including Martin Shiels, Sile Ni Baoill, and the now infamous Seamus Tiernan. And I discovered there were no councillors of those names serving in Galway, nor in any other council in Ireland.
In other words, the entire story was a hoax. Funny, yes, and maybe even thought-provoking. But a hoax nonetheless.
Which rather scuppered my plans to write about politicians’ lack of grasp on matters scientific and technological."
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